Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them : : New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould's Analytic System.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Author: Kronenfeld, David B.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 pages)

"This essay presents Gould's distinctive system for analyzing kin terminologies showing the system's power, importance, and usefulness-and showing its relationship to other approaches and the payoffs each aims at. In revealing significant new empirical regularities and simplifications...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Figures and Tables
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Some Thoughts and Speculations Concerning the Importance and Payoffs of Kinship
• The Study of Kinship
• Description and Assemblage of Data
• Next Came Comparison and Analysis
• Morgan and Kinship Terminologies
• Post Morgan
• Gould
• Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens
• Definitions
• Part 2 Notational Schemes
• 1 Traditional Notation
• 2 P/C Notation
• 3 FMSD Notation
• 4 Romney's Notation (Romney and D'Andrade 1964, Romney 1965)
• 5 Gould Notation Scheme (see Gould 2000: 27-39)
• Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations
• Part 4 Gould's Kingraphs
• Example 4-1: English
• Example 4-2: Nanjilnattu Vellalar (NV)
• Part 5 Analysis
• The Stages of Analysis Referred to in Part 1
• The Stages of Analysis, with Gould System Examples Added in
• Example 5-1: An English Example
• Example 5-2: A Nanjilnattu Vellalar (NV) Example
• Part 6 System Types
• Part 7 The Fanti Case
• Ethnographic Background
• Basic Kinterm Information
• Wider Issues
• The Fanti Case
• Analysis of Fanti Kinterm System
• Part 8 Overview
• First - Notational System
• Second - Basis of Analysis, Equivalences
• Third - Analytic Process
• Reduction via Equivalences
• Fourth - Kingraphs
• Fifth - TYPES, defined
• The Importance of Gould's System and Findings
• A Reminder
• The Usefulness of Kinship Terminologies for the Study of Collective Cognitive Systems
• The Future
• Conclusion
• What I Particularly Admire about Gould's System
• Major Implications of Gould's System
• A Point about Typologies
• Some Basic Questions Posed by Findings
• Change
• Overview and Take Home Lessons
• References Cited
• Index
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